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niller

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 91

aMSN and microphone

I just installed aMSN and the plugin snack.

I have no problem with webcam, that works just fine. My problem is how to make the microphone work.

The microphone is built into the webcam. The webcam is a QuickCam Communicate Deluxe.

When I'm trying to record my voice in aMSN it doesn't work.

I have these input units to deal with in aMSN Preferences:
/dev/dsp
/dev/dsp1
/dev/audio
/dev/audio1
/dev/sound/dsp
/dev/sound/dsp1
/dev/sound/audio
/dev/sound/audio1

But none of them works.

This is my soundcard:
root /etc #  lspci | grep audio
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)

Does anyone have the same setup ?

Any hints will be much appreciated

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mightyjaym

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From: Nîmes, France

Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 25

Re: aMSN and microphone

Best way would be to recompile snack adding --enable-alsa to the ./configure line of the PKGBUILD.

You will also need to apply this patch for the compilation to be successful : http://gilles.hamel.free.fr/alsa.patch

Relevant thread from aMSN forums : http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/view … 9&start=45

Last edited by mightyjaym (2008-11-17 17:25:22)

niller

Member

From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 91

Re: aMSN and microphone

It worked :-D

Thanks a lot !!

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